Monalee Kendall, Rit Ritenour, and Bryan Ritenour
Recorded
February 10, 2024
Archived
February 10, 2024
38:58 minutes
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Id:
mbd000015
Description
Siblings Monalee Kendall (63), Rit Ritenour (69), and Bryan Ritenour (65) honor their late mother and the great life she lived.Subject Log / Time Code
Monalee Kendall (M) explains that she and her siblings will be remembering their mother.
Rit Ritenour (R) and M shares their most vivid memories with their mother.
Bryan Ritenour (B) shares how he thinks his mother would like to be remembered.
B, M, and R discuss their mother's sense of humor and how she managed to get an education for herself. R says that after her divorce, his mother than to take care of three kids by herself.
B speaks about how he and siblings were latchkey kids.
M describes how passionate and enthusiastic their mother was when she discovered Friedrich Nietzsche and Existentialism. R explains the many ways his mother was self-made.
R says his mother joined a Unitarian Universalist church where she made a good group of friends she was able to travel with.
M talks about the illnesses his mother contracted at the end of her life. M and R tip their hat to B for being their mother's primary caretaker in her final stages. M, R and B discuss their mother's smoking habit.
M, R, and B say more about the health challenges their mother experienced and the surgeries she had to have.
M, R, and B describe the ways they will try to memorialize their mother. They talk about their mother's appreciation of nice things.
R recalls a moment when his mother let him express himself.
M, R, and B share what makes them smile when they think about their mother. M says she misses turning to her mother for business advice.
M, R, and B talk about their mother's dating history.
M, R, and B share closing thoughts.
Participants
- Monalee Kendall
- Rit Ritenour
- Bryan Ritenour